ABSTRACT
This study examined the role of personality traits, physical attractiveness and gender on sexual harassment.
A total of 300 participants comprising of 200 females and 100 males were all used for the study. The participants were students of Ebonyi state university and school of health technology Ezzamgbo.
A 28 item Eysenck personality questionnaire of yes or no options were used to measure personality of participants. While a fifteen items yes/no options questionnaire were used in measuring physical attractiveness and a 14 item five points likert type questionnaire was used to measure participants’ experience of sexual harassment.
A pilot study was conducted before the main study to establish the reliability of the items. Personality had a coefficient of .66; while physical attractiveness yielded a cronbach’s alpha reliability coefficient of .62 while sexual harassment scale had a cronbach’s alpha reliability of .79.
A cross sectional research design was conducted in which 300 copies of questionnaire were distributed and collected and were used for the study.
The statistics used for the study was multiple hierarchical regression.
The three hypotheses used for the study are:
1. There will be no statistically significant difference between personality traits and sexual harassment.
2. There will be no statistically significant difference between physical attractiveness and sexual harassment.
3. There will be no statistically significant difference between gender and sexual harassment.
Hypothesis I had regression coefficient result of (r= .32, p
The implications, recommendation and conclusion of the study were also discussed.
Finally suggestions for further research were given and the summary and the conclusion were discussed.
1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
Sexual harassment includes such unwelcome sexually determined behaviour as physical contacts and advances, sexually coloured remarks showing pornography, and sexual demands- whether by words or action (Singh, 2009).
It is also an unwelcome sexual advance, request, sexual favours and other verbal or physical conducts of a sexual nature that tends to create a hostile or offensive workplace
Violence against women is experienced by women of all ages and social classes, all races, religions and nationalities, all over the world. It is overwhelmingly perpetrated by men (Krug, 2002). It is the most pervasive violation of human rights in the world today. Its forms are both subtle and blatant and its impact on development is profound. But it is so deeply embedded in cultures around the world that it is almost invisible (charlotte, 1997). Violence against women is a manifestation of the historically unequal power relations between